Congress: ‘Just say no’ to Bayer on pesticide legislation

A quiet provision in a House spending bill could shield Bayer from tens of thousands of Roundup cancer lawsuits by blocking new pesticide label warnings.

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by Dave Dickey, Columnist

October 1, 2025

It’s off the record, on the QT, and very hush hush. Bayer AG wants no one to know, but the pesticide manufacturer is potentially just two votes away from the golden ticket it has wanted ever since acquiring Saint Louis based Monsanto in 2018.

A provision tucked deep in a spending bill to fund the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department would effectively end lawsuits from plaintiffs claiming Bayer’s pesticide Roundup and its active ingredient glyphosate gave them cancer.

To date, Bayer has paid out roughly $11 billion in settlements to about 100,000 plaintiffs. At least 63,000 additional lawsuits are pending. Most of those cases are in state courts where the lawsuits typically allege Bayer’s Roundup labels fail to warn about potential cancer risks, referencing a 2015 International Agency for Research study that found glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic to humans.”

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act prohibits the sale of any pesticide that is “misbranded.” Plaintiffs often successfully argue the lack of a cancer warning on the label amounts to FIFRA-defined misbranding.

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